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Tuesday’s Headlines
• Designer signs of the times [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto to levy new tax on trash [ Globe and Mail ] • The pain of being a second city ...
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Growing Power comes to Toronto
CITY BUILDER IN RESIDENCE Growing Power from Milwaukee and Chicago Tuesday April 3rd, 7pm Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto 2 Sussex Ave., (corner of...
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How the Beaches deal with graffiti
Last summer I worked down at Leuty Station in the Beaches. One morning I showed up for work and noticed that someone had tagged the historical lifeguard...
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Most comments in March: discuss amongst yourselves
Each month, Spacing compiles the posts that have generated the most discussion. The number in brackets represents the number of comments of that specific...
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A museum about Toronto finally coming to life?
The Toronto museum, an idea that has been bantied about for years, seems to have found a home: Toronto’s future museum celebrating the city’s...
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Homeless Signs
Those who read city blogs like BlogTO and various urban-minded Flickr feeds may have seen photos of a series of official looking signs around town that...
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Monday’s Headlines
• Lookouts missed at blind spot [ Toronto Star ] • Let panel do its job in fixing waterfront [ Toronto Star ] • ‘Every tree that...
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Postcards from the edge
These fine postcards of Toronto were purchased yesterday at Honest Eds. They were printed by an Italian company in 1976, when Toronto was a smaller place...
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Pedestrian Sundays expand
The successful Kensington Market Pedestrian Sundays are expanding to other neighbourhoods this year. Both Baldwin Street Village and Mirvish Village (on...
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Pedestrian signals next target of outdoor advertising?
Bike Toronto has just broken the news of an April 1 initiative at city hall to raise revenue by selling advertising space in the unused part of pedestrian...
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The forgotten other half of Toronto’s Bike Plan
One of the key strategies for a greener and cleaner Toronto proposed in the City’s new clean air plan, Change is in the Air, is to complete the...
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Announcing…Salon Voltaire at the Gladstone Hotel on April 4th
The 2007 Salon Voltaire lecture series will begin with an evening of discussion with City Councillor Adam Vaughan and Greg Woods, Director of SMC Alsop...
By Julie Yamin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered